Picture "Garnet Forest" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Garnet Forest" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 100 x 90 cm
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Picture "Garnet Forest" (2022) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2022. Signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 100 x 90 cm as shown.
About Rhea Standke
Rhea Standke (born in 1972 in Dresden, Germany) trained as a ceramist and studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. According to Standke, she paints the world she would like to live in. The artist creates painterly landscapes that take the viewer with her into utopian worlds and spaces. The polychrome cloud formations resembling candyfloss find their art historical reference in the visualised dream worlds of Surrealism or Magic Realism.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.